Update on new licensing pilot
and Creative Commons solution
APPSI Meeting
Jim Wretham and Jo Ellis
17 February 2010
OPSI and licensing – re-use in practice
 Licensing history and development – from paper-based to
online licensing
 Online licensing
system introduced - 2001
 PSI Licence
 Value Added Licence - introduced 2004
Putting the Frontline First: smarter government
We will make a number of important technical
improvements to public data: we will aim for the
majority of government-published information to be
reusable, linked data by June 2010; and we will
establish a common licence to reuse data which is
interoperable with the internationally recognised
Creative Commons model.
Move towards a non-transactional licence
 Technological developments + policy developments in
information and PSI = move to non-transactional licensing
 Power of Information
 Making Public Data Public
 Putting the Frontline First: smarter government
 data.gov.uk
New licensing model for government
information and data
 Research and consultation
 PSI Perspectives Blog
PerSpectIves
Encourage and enabling re-use of government
data and information – positive emphasis
 Simpler, clearer set of terms and conditions
 Human- and machine-readable
Terms of re-use
You are free:
to Share — to copy, publish and distribute the content
to Adapt — to adapt the content
With the following conditions:
Acknowledgment — You need to say who originated the
content wherever you publish it.

You must not use the content in a deliberately misleading way.
Read the full licence
Creative Commons
Want to know more?
opsi.gov.uk
perspectives.opsi.gov.uk
…unlocking the potential of public sector
information